One day this year, Indroneal Banerjee tucked his passport into his pocket before leaving his house. He hasn’t stopped carrying it since.

It’s protection from what he describes as “a cloud of disappearances.”

There were more San Diego area Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of people with citizenship in Asian and Pacific Islander countries in a single month this summer than all of last year combined, according to agency records.

Banerjee is the president of the .

He said for the first time, people who’ve been in the U.S. for 40 or 50 years, even those with a legal status, are afraid to leave their homes. Friends and family members text him when they’re going to church, school or the grocery store — just in case they never come back.

Still, enough club members and allies

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